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so, i want to talk about elegy for old Identities and nostalgia. this is one of my favorite songs in the contest (so far) and i was thinking about mycro saying it has complex chords in his writeup. like... does it? i guess it does for the most part but i feel like the chord progression that starts at the 0:06 mark is actually super common and predicatable. but here's the thing: that's how i WANTED the track to go. when listening to it for its match, i was like "i hope the composer is going to use this chord change" and when he actually did, i was like "AHHH SO GOOD." this made me think of how my dad told me that he hates music that's predictable. for one thing, that's total bullshit (he adores budapest by george ezra lol) but for another, i've never really understood this mentality. i would rather have a "predictable" song with chord changes i love to death than a song that's batshit insane but also sounds like poop.

i don't know if i want to get all "deep" and "music theory discussion" in this topic (probably not, as i understand very little to nothing about music theory). but EFOIAN really fascinates me and it made me think about the way i experience music, so i thought that was worth pointing out, at least!

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